I still cannot believe what happened this week! Last week someone paid for a permanent wave and on Wednesday (when I wasn’t home) someone called and wanted to buy me a computer. I couldn’t get back to this person until Friday as I was out of the house before 7 a.m. and not home until almost 10 p.m. (I don’t call anyone before 9 a.m. and not after 9 p.m.) Thursday I was gone early again and later that afternoon met up with Steve and Bethany and went to Larry Mullally’s wake at Storm Lake. On Friday morning I had an appointment at Floyd Valley for an X-ray and finally, that afternoon I was home at last! When I called this person, I had to leave a message that I was going to decline the offer as things were working better.
I did appreciate the offer and wish there were more people like you that wanted to be concerned about someone else. Maybe there would be less hatred and tragic happenings if people cared about others.
I hope the appointments I had those 3 days will be put in the past. I have had trouble breathing and hope nothing is going to put me in a hospital like five years ago. I have too many things that I have to get done.
Larry’s wake was 4 to 7 but there were still people coming close to 8 o’clock. When you are in business like he was at Golden Pheasant as well as other restaurants, he did touch many people’s lives. May he rest in peace until we meet again.
Steve and I went to Doris Mortensen’s funeral at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Le Mars on Saturday. Doris was a sister of Vera Sterrett (who lives in Marcus) and Doris was married to Eldon Mortensen who was a cousin of my mother. We did get to see Marian Benton’s daughter, Sandy and Mark and Cheryl Juhl. I was surprised at how many people were at this funeral. Generally when a person is 90+, there aren’t that many people left to go to the funeral.
Sunday was the Pilot Rock Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Awards Day at the Sanford Museum in Cherokee. This year the MMC Community Ministries Food Pantry was awarded a N.S.D.A.R. Community Service Award. Sarah Wilcox and Donna Bird represented the Food Pantry. The Cherokee Rotary Club was also awarded the N.S.D.A.R. Community Service Award.
Elaine Leavitt and Renea Ogren presented the NSDAR Good Citizen Award to Steven Colerick from Alta-Aurelia; Jake Breyfogle from Ridgeview; Halle Laurson from Sioux Central and Kaden Neddermeyer from MMCRU. (Jesse Brewer from River Valley was not present.)
Kaden Neddermeyer received the honor of reading his essay he submitted. (It is included in the DAR program article.) It was back in September (2022) that he became a finalist. A high school official must submit a detailed scholarship application, in which they provide information about the semifinalist’s academic record, participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment, and honors and awards received. A Semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay, and earn SAT or ACT scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.
From over 16,000 Semifinalists, more than 15,000 are expected to advance to the Finalist level and in February they will be notified of this designation. National Merit Scholarship winners of 2023 will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and concluding in July. These scholarship recipients will join nearly 368,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title. Congratulations to Kaden on his accomplishment!
Last week I wrote on the Death Camp that people that survived or those whose families died there. There are three articles that I have written that I have to admit I was emotional on. One was on the people that were given a bar of soap and told they were to clean up before they could be moved to another concentration camp. They were marched into a gas chamber and thrown on a pile outside to be buried in a long trench or else to be incinerated. It was told that some saw the earth moving and knew some were trying to get out of the grave—but they couldn’t help as they would have been next. People went to World War II because of Hitler and the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
The other two articles include stories of what is happening right here in our communities. One was on Steps to Fentanyl (Jan. 5, 2023) and the other was on My Name is Meth. The endings of both of these stories are emotional as they could be personal to many. We don’t think kids are bothered by what adults do—in the one article, the mother was constantly moving the boy to prove a point. He was afraid to tell her he wanted to stay where he was and what he wrote in his journal told the story, but it was too late. Why his father didn’t say something was a question. Kids blame themselves when adults do anything wrong whether adults believe it or not. The other article was a girl on Meth and what she wanted to tell others not to do, but had a sad ending, also.
I ran across some real good mistakes! June 15, 2006 the Marcus News had the following: Athletic Physicals will be available for $10 at Cherokee Regional Clinics. Cherokee Regional Clinics will again be offering athletic 50th wedding anniversary physicals to students entering the 8th grade through the 12th grade. These physicals will be $10 and is due at the time of examination. This money will again be donated back to each individual athlete’s school district.
Physicals will be done at the Cherokee Regional Clinic in Marcus on Thursday, July 20th from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Tuesday, July 25th from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. No appointments are necessary for physicals in Marcus.
All students who plan to participate in extracurricular activities must submit a physical and insurance waiver before they will be allowed to practice. These physicals should be considered screening physicals and not complete examinations. If a student has a known health concern, they should contact their family healthcare provider. Should a health concern be identified at the screening, the student will be referred to his/her family healthcare provider for further care. STUDENTS MUST HAVE A PERMISSION SLIP SIGNED BY THEIR PARENTS OR GUARDIAN PRIOR TO RECEIVING A PHYSICAL.
After 2 weeks of this misprinted ad running, Cherokee called it to the attention of the Marcus News. We still don’t know how the 50th wedding anniversary physicals got in there as that week, there were no 50th anniversaries in the paper!
Bernice McIntosh also had a misprint. She had been to the nursing home to visit Stanley Birch. She reported that he couldn’t “wee” very much…it should have been “see”.
Remember in your thoughts and prayers those who have lost loved ones to death and have had their lives changed, have health problems some of which are terminal, are trying to make ends meet even though they have a job, and be with those who are still trying to shorten the distance between family/friends by building a bridge instead of a wall. Count your blessings.